Butter-plate



(No Model.)

G. L. MORRISON.

BUTTER PLATE. No. 597,731. Patented Jan. 25, 1898.

WITNESSES: WVENNRI mutssh UNITED STATES PATENT Enron,

GEORGE LE VELLYN MORRISON, OF HOLLAND, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ANDREW H. THAYER, OF SHELBY, llIICHIGAlT.

BUTTER-PLATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 597,731, dated. January 25, 1898.

Application filed February 3,1897, Serial No. 621,898. (No man.)

. To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE LEWELLYN MORRISON, a citizen'of the United States, residing at Holland, in the county of Ottawa and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful. Butter-Plate, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in paper dishes, and especially to dishes for butter, pickles, &c., for grocers use; and its object is to provide the same with certain new and useful features hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is aperspective view of a device embodying my invention; Fig. 2,-a plan view of the blank from which the dish is made, and Fig. 3 a detail of one end of said dish in section.

Like letters refer to like parts in all of the figures.

The dish is formed from a blank of paper or other suitable material, said blank being a parallelogram with the corners rounded, substantially as shown in Fig. 2, and scored across, as shown by the lines A C E. The

. central portion of the blank is bounded by the parallel lines A and O, the lines A extending longitudinally across said blank from end to end and. the lines 0 extending transversely across between said lines A and at certain distances from the ends of the same, and when folded on said lines the portion Aforlns the bottom of said dish, the portions B the sides, and the portions 0 the ends. In each end of said blank and a certain distance each side of the center thereof is cut a notch, and from the points of said notches the lines E extend diagonally to the corners of the bottom A, thus forming the gussets E between said lines E and A. When the blank is creased and folded on the lines, as indicated, the gussets E are fold ed outside the end portions 0 and between the same and the ends of the side portions B, which extend across the outer side of said portions 0 and overlap a short distance, the rounded corners of the portions B thus forming the upper edge of the round corners of the dish. The portions or flaps D between the said notches are folded over the ends of the sides B and gussets E and the whole secured in place by the U- shaped metal clips F, the ends of which engage the portions 0 on the inner side and the portions D on the outer side of the dish and are compressed toward each other, thus firmly clamping the ends of thesidesB together and holding the same in place. The portion D may be glued or otherwise fastened down to the overlapping ends of the sides 13 andserve as a fastening, or said portion maybe omitted and the said ends secured to the ends 0 by staples or in any convenient manner.

By this construction I secure a dish which is made of one piece of material and which has no slits or cuts in its sides orbottoin causing it to leak. As a further preventive to leakage the inside of said dish may be coated with paraffinavax or other suitable material. I thus secure a cheap and durable paper dish adapted to hold liquids as well as solids.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim is-- 1. The herein-described blank for a dish, having rounded corners, and scored longitudinally from end to end on twoparallel lines A and scored transversely between said lon gitudinal scores, near the ends thereof, on

the parallel lines 0', said blank also having.

notches in each end between said longitudinal scores, and being scored at each end on converging lines E, said scores E respectively extending diagonally inward from the points of said notches to the junctions of the longitudinal and transverse scores, substantially as described.

2. The herein-described paper dish, constructed of a blank having rounded corners and each of its ends formed with two notches arranged at opposite sides of and adjacentto its center, said blank being folded longitudi nally on two parallel lines A to form the sides of the dish and transversely on two parallel lines 0' to form the ends 0, each of said ends having sides converging from the bottom of the dish to the base of said notches, and terminating in a flap D bounded at opposite sides by said notches, and each rounded cornor of said blank being bent longitudinally upon itself on the line A from the diagonal line forming the adjacent side of the end flap to a corresponding diagonal line extending from said line A to the outer edge of the blank, and said doubled portions of the blank at opposite sides of the flap being folded to- Ward each other outside the flaps to form gussets While the remaining portions of said corners form rounded corners to the dish, and

said flaps D being bent over said gussets, substantially as shown and described.

GEORGE LEWELLYN MORRISON.

Witnesses:

ARTHUR VAN 'DIUREN,

GERRIT J. VAN DUREN. 

